From 3b4875b75494dc2ba462b138ea898eb71b333bf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James <james@trbl.design>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:42:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fixes bug with incoming richText stringified JSON

---
 .../components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.js       | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/client/components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.js b/src/client/components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.js
index cce0779223..d1fc761fcf 100644
--- a/src/client/components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.js
+++ b/src/client/components/forms/field-types/RichText/RichText.js
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ const RichText = (props) => {
     return null;
   }
 
+  let valueToRender = value;
+  if (typeof valueToRender === 'string') valueToRender = JSON.parse(valueToRender);
+  if (!valueToRender) valueToRender = defaultValue;
+
   return (
     <div
       className={classes}
@@ -163,7 +167,7 @@ const RichText = (props) => {
         />
         <Slate
           editor={editor}
-          value={value || defaultValue}
+          value={valueToRender}
           onChange={(val) => {
             if (val !== defaultValue && val !== value) {
               setValue(val);